Many networks are dynamic in that their topology changes rapidly--on the same time scale as the communications of interest between network nodes. Examples are the human contact networks involved in the transmission of disease, ad hoc radio networks between moving vehicles, and the transactions between principals in a market. While we have good models of static networks, so far these have been l...

the paper discusses the current state of research concerning railway network timetabling and traffic management. timetable effectiveness is governed by frequency, regularity, accurate running, recovery and layover times, as well as minimal headway, buffer times and waiting times. analytic (queuing) models and stochastic microsimulation are predominantly used for estimation of waiting times and ...

$EVWUDFW The Differentiated Services (DiffServ) architecture is receiving wide attention as a framework for providing different levels of service according to a Service Level Agreement (SLA) profile. The edge routers in a DiffServ network mark/shape/police flows based on their SLAs, and the core routers offer packets different treatments using the marks they carry. Core routers handle aggregate...

A management-plane solution that monitors aggregate traffic (e.g., by reading SNMP MIBs) and decides where to add circuits (network engineering) and/or which IP traffic to reroute (traffic engineering) is not likely to have much value in ESnet because average loading on ESnet links is light (5-10%). Inspite of these light loads, ESnet deployed a dynamic-circuit network called the Science Data N...

We consider a scenario where devices with multiple networking capabilities access networks with heterogeneous characteristics. In such a setting, we address the problem of efficient utilization of multiple access networks (wireless and/or wireline) by devices via optimal assignment of traffic flows with given utilities to different networks. We develop and analyze a device middleware functional...

We provide an analytical model for efficient dynamic capacity allocation in IEEE 802.16 wireless metropolitan area network, where the nonreal-time traffic can utilize the bandwidth unused by the real-time traffic. We investigate the uplink delay of the nrtPS service flow as a function of the capacity allocations for the rtPS (ertPS) and UGS service flows. Unicast polling is applied for the band...

Communication in next generation networks will use multiple access technologies, creating a heterogeneous network environment. To enable end-user terminals to move between access networks with minimal disruption, the terminals should be able to maintain multiple active network connections. Such a multihomed mobile host will experience different capabilities and coverage area depending on the ac...

We propose STRIDE, a new Internet architecture that provides strong DDoS defense mechanisms for both public services and private end-to-end communication. This new architecture presents several novel concepts including long-term static paths, bandwidth allocation through a top-down topology discovery protocol, dynamic bandwidth allocation via network capabilities, and differentiated packet prio...

The network nodes that are connected by wireless data connections called as wireless networks. The devices are connected via wireless link to communicate with each other. In wireless networks, it is very difficult to maintain the trade-off between throughput and delay. This paper proposes a new joint scheduling and congestion control algorithm for multihop wireless networks with dynamic route f...